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// Waves 7-10 
// Story: Pony Floor, or "How We Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Dosh" 
// by The card holder 
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"Bloody hell, what's he got on his arms?"

Twilight and Celestia found the humans just as the next wave began. Just as notable was the large creature that had a yellow glowing... thing in its chest, and a set of painful-looking devices on its hands. Like the "doctor" monster before, the humans didn't shoot at it immediately, and in fact started running away from it, easily outpacing its lumbering steps.

"So, what does that one do?" Celestia asked.

"I'm not sure, I think that's a new one..."

Suddenly, the creature stopped in place and started roaring and waving its arms around, the yellow thing turning blood red. The monster suddenly ran forward at a formidable speed, quickly catching up with the humans who were now firing at it as much as they could. The creature just shrugged the damage off, however, and started pounding on the nearest human. More punishment was dealt out to the creature, and eventually it fell. The attacked human immediately injected himself with the red thing he had, and went on his way killing more monsters.

"Well that certainly was... something," Celestia commented.

"Honestly, princess, I think I'm getting to the point where I just want to let whatever's happening, happen," Twilight said, exasperated. "I mean, it's not like there's anything we could really do."

Celestia thought on this, as she watched one of the humans tear through a line of creatures with a sword, each decapitation resulting in slow motion. "Do you think that you should try the Elements?" she finally tried.

"I doubt that would do much, and I don't think there's even a reason to, really." Twilight sat down with a sigh. "Is it always like this, being a princess?"

Celestia chuckled. "Well, it's usually not this weird, I admit. But, if you feel that no action can, or should, be taken, then there is little we can do but watch."

By now, the wave was finished, and the humans all ran by, eager to re-arm for the next one.

"Although the townsponies seem to be taking it rather well," Celestia added.

"When you've been living in Ponyville this long, weird things become part of the norm," Twilight joked. The two shared a laugh at this, and the humans returned again. Both of them noted that by now, their weapons were rather large in size, most likely to compensate for how the creatures they were fighting were also getting larger. 

"I think this is... the eighth wave?" Twilight said, trying to remember.

"Do you think it will end at some point?" Celestia asked.

"I don't know... it seems that each wave has more creatures than the last, and bigger monsters seem to appear every so often, so who knows?"

Another large glowing monster lumbered into view, following behind a chainsaw one. As before, the yellow one turned red, and started barreling forward, tearing apart any other creature unlucky enough to be in its way. The chainsaw one, however, was simply knocked aside, something that made it run forward about as quickly as the raging beast. It caught up, and the two began fighting each other. The humans also noticed this, and simply watched while taking out any other monsters that reared their ugly heads. Soon, the glowing creature won, and a jet of flame launched from one of the human's devices, finishing it off.

"Do you think someone is controlling them?" Celestia asked, once the humans were again out of battle.

"What? The humans?"

"Well, them too, but I was talking about the... other things. They just walk forward and attack, hardly the actions that free thinking creatures would perform."

"...I haven't thought about that, honestly." Twilight rubbed her chin in thought. "But then why are they all intangible? Is this like some kind of ghost of the past, or something?"

"I do not think so, but with how much we know about it, anything is possible."

Another wave attacked, and Celestia watched as a few of the humans ended up dying in battle. The others, rather than pay any respects or even ignoring it, decided to insult their fallen comrades while running from the horde. In fact, now that she thought about it, these six acted more like people who didn't really like each other, despite working together. Sure, they healed each other and kept the creatures off of the others, but they didn't hesitate to run when they spotted a losing battle, leaving their fellow fighters to their death.

Of course, all of this was cheapened a bit when the wave ended, and those that died just popped back into existence, the only acknowledgement of their death being them returning to where their corpse was to pick up whatever weapon they dropped.

"This will be the tenth wave, correct?" Celestia asked. Twilight nodded in answer. "Do you think something will happen, now?"

"Only one way to find out..."

The humans returned once more, and one of them dropped a rectangular object on the ground. Shortly after, it began beeping, which soon got on the ponies' nerves.

"Bloody hell, you stink!" one of the humans taunted, lopping off head after head, only stopping to inject himself every once in a while. Another lumbering creature walked into view, heading straight for the beeping thing. The moment it stepped on it, it made a couple of faster beeping sounds, and then blew up, reducing the creature to a pair of covered arms and a cloud of blood. The moment was topped off with a bit of slow motion.

"There certainly is a lot of fire and explosions, aren't there?" Celestia commented. 

"Don't remind me, I think I might be losing some of my hearing," Twilight said, half-joking. 

The humans continued their battle, only two of them dying this time. That two quickly became four, however, and when the last two split up, one of the small, gray creatures grabbed one of them, allowing a raging pounding creature to maul him to death.

"Who do you think you are, bleeding Action Man?" the last human standing said, reloading one of his weapons while running away.

"Oh dear," Celestia said. "You said there were six humans?"

"Yes, but they've never all died at once, before..."

The lone human didn't stop fighting, though, and soon had cleared a large number of the creatures. He'd run and create a trail of creatures, before mowing them down in just a few shots. It was actually somewhat impressive.

Soon, all that remained was a single small, black creature. Instead of killing it, however, the human ran away, likely to whichever metal door would open next. He quickly put ground between him and the crawling creature, which, oddly enough, eventually just died from seemingly nothing at all. The five fallen humans appeared yet again, and they made their way to the library, where the one was waiting.

This time, Celestia and Twilight followed, seeing that the humans were now wielding the largest weapons yet, some of them nearly as big as themselves.

"Now this, is a big, sodding gun!" one of them said, holding a large green tube over his shoulder. They soon filed out, and placed not one, but about ten total of the beeping bombs they used before. The noise wasn't deafening, but it sure was annoying.

"They seem to be preparing for something... But what?"

"I don't know," Twilight said, "but whatever it is, it must be big..."





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